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The eerie silence : renewing our search for alien intelligence
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In this mind-expanding book, Paul Davies, astrobiologist and chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, refocuses the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might...
In this mind-expanding book, Paul Davies, astrobiologist and chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, refocuses the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if it does.
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- Creator
- Paul Davies
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First U.S. edition
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 241 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780547133249, 0547133243
- OCLC
- ocn432986059
- "First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books"--T.p. verso
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.
- Is anybody out there? -- Life : freak side-show or cosmic imperative? -- A shadow biosphere -- How much intelligence is out there? -- New SETI : widening the search -- Evidence for a galactic diaspora -- Alien magic -- Post-biological intelligence -- First contact -- Who speaks for Earth? -- Appendix : A brief history of SETI